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Kolkata, Mumbai to Face Maximum Brunt of Climate Change

...ergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the rise in sea level and flooding of villages would become... system. The report said the projected sea level rise could flood the residences of millions living in the low lying areas of South, Southeast and East As...

India's Water Availability Will Decline by 2050

...southeast Asia. "For example, 0.5 degree Celsius rise in winter temperature would reduce wheat yield by 0.45 tonnes per hectares in India," Pachauri said adding that the average yield of wheat per hectares in India is 2.6 tonnes. The report also revealed that in future climate change would impact fore...

Heat Wave Sweeps Chhattisgarh

...The metrological department has forecast a further rise in heat this week with daytime temperatures at 45 degrees Celsius while night temperatures stay around 39 degrees Celsius. "Normally, in the first half of April, temperature remains under 40 degrees Celsius in the state. But this year temperature h...

Restless Legs Syndrome Poses Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

...is the bottom or second number. “This repetitive rise in blood pressure during periodic leg movements could be harmful to the cardiovascular system, especially in severe cases of RLS, the elderly, and those with a long history of the disease,” said the study’s lead author Paola Lanfranchi, MD, MSc, with...

After the King’s Crown, Maoist Want Miss Nepal’s Cron

...anagement group. The event has seen an astonishing rise in the number of contestants each year and has sparked a series of other beauty contests. Like the Miss World and the Miss Universe pageants, it too had its detractors in women's groups and party organizations that held half-hearted protests outsid...

Heart-felt Plea to Malaysian Hospitals

...Health Ministry has urged the private hospitals to rise to the occasion and provide affordable heart surgery to the poor. The ministry will now review the provisions in the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services (PHFS) Act and Regulations to see if hospitals can assist patients by reducing the cost...

Genetic Technology and Eugenics

...impetus to improve. This crave for betterment gave rise to a concept called 'eugenics' , which enjoyed the support of several outstanding thinkers of the time, such as Graham Bell, Winston Churchill and Bernard Shaw. Eugenics involved the promotion of selected hereditary traits and was practiced si...

Sultans of Suntans Warned

... more than Sydney, which registered a 100 per cent rise to 63 clinics. Numbers in all other capitals rose by between 70 and 400 per cent of over the period except the Northern Territory, which has no listings. Alarmed skin cancer experts are now calling for tougher regulation of the tanning industry and ...

Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study

...lso found: · Patient-safety incidents continue to rise in American hospitals, with 1.16 million preventable patient-safety incidents occurring over the three years studied among Medicare patients in the nation's hospitals, an incidence rate of 2.86 percent. · 247,662 deaths were potentially preventable ...

Two-in-one Diabetic Drug Approved by FDA

...xceeding the WHO's estimate of a 60 percent global rise between 1995 and 2030 and 39 percent between 2000 and 2030. ANN...

Be Happy- Get On Your Knees And Play In The Mud

...ecting our immune systems. This also argues that a rise in conditions like asthma and allergies could be linked to lack of exposure to various microorganisms. NN...

MPs Vow to Fight Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

...icator of human underdevelopment - has been on the rise in Madhya Pradesh. According to data collected a few months ago by the state government's own Bal Sanjeevani Abhiyan scheme, 80,000 children are suffering from severe malnutrition and are on the verge of death," he asserted. Source-IANS...

Transplant Tourism on the Rise, Says WHO

Organ transplant tourism is on the rise in the wake of persistent supply shortage, the World Health Organisation has noted.// It has pleaded strongly against the undesirable practice of preying upon poorer nations by patients from the developed countries of the West. Demand for human or...

Two More Suspected Avian Flu Deaths in Indonesia

...results, Indonesia's death toll from bird flu will rise to 71 since 2003 when bird flu first hit Asian countries. Experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a pandemic across the world. Source-IANS...

Chronic Diseases- Lion’s Share of Canada’s Health-care Coss

...conditions. He opined that obesity is fuelling the rise of many diseases and that simply getting people to eat better, stay active and giving them safe and meaningful work would prevent 80 per cent of the cases of coronary heart diseases, Type 2 diabetes, and over 85 per cent of lung cancer cases. Good ...

Obese Aussies Get Big Ambulances

...ing their fleet of ambulances to cope with a sharp rise in overweight patients. Super-sized vehicles have been introduced and new air ambulances will be remodeled to carry heavier people. The ambulances will now be equipped with heavy-duty stretchers, capable of carrying patients weighing up to 220kg. ...

UN Secretary Emphasize Action Against Tuberculosis

...lth Organization (WHO) recently reported about the rise in the extensively drug resistant strain of tuberculosis, XDR-TB, which threatens to derail efforts to bring the global epidemic of ordinary TB under control. "To highlight the grave public health threat and the need for a stepped up response, I ha...

TB Cases on the Rise

...hows a slight increase. During 2005 we saw a large rise in the number of cases reported. We therefore need to be cautious about predicting future trends based on 2006 figures alone. "At this stage, it is too early to tell whether these provisional results for 2006 signify a slowing in the overall trend ...

Sunscreen Covering Earth Becoming Thinner

... "sunscreen” could have given an extra push to the rise in global surface temperatures, it is felt. In a related study published last week, scientists found that the opposing forces of global warming and the cooling resulting from aerosols could occur at the same time. "When more sunlight can get th...

New Pediatric Continuous Glucose Monitors Approved

...ts patients if their glucose levels fall below--or rise above--preset values. Values are not intended to be used directly for making therapy adjustments, but rather to provide an indication of when a meter blood glucose measurement may be required. All therapy adjustments should be based on measurements o...

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